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He is working now on an edition of a volume that arises from an original idea: They've handed disposable cameras to the inhabitants of the native Salta villages so that they can portray what they would like [portrayed], a kind of “self-made anthropology,” in the words of the actor who lives in Los Angeles. [sic]

In an exchange with Télam [tr. note: Argentine national news agency], Mortensen explained that his publishing catalog doesn’t answer to any plan. “It’s the same in film. I’m not looking for a genre or a director, just stories that end up being interesting to me and Schmidt’s story seemed very interesting to me.

"Each photo is a story.”

What are the upcoming titles? “We have a book of images in process that has a particular interest. It’s from a collector that has everything about San Lorenzo from the first day: picture cards, t-shirts, membership cards. He lives in a house full, from floor to ceiling, with boxes of San Lorenzo objects, a crazy man. The Cuervo people are going to buy it but I don’t know who else [will],” he said, finishing up.